Having discovered that Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) a.k.a. "Kos" of DailyKos) has a long history of activism for the Republican Party and, furthermore, he trained and worked with the US CIA between 2001 and 2003, research has revealed and established the following, and therefore justice and history now bring this thirty-one count Indictment.

Monday, June 28, 2010

The Rehabilitation of Markos Moulitsas

I published the following article on July16, 2007, while beginning to research and publish the Truth About Kos blog one article and research path at a time. Although something seemed inherently fishy about this "Kos" character, it took a month of additional research before I could discover and publish , on July 8, 2007, "the shocking facts" contained in the explosive article entitled, "The Indictment of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga by Justice and History."

It was subsequently necessary to update the "The Indictment", to include new sources, discoveries and citations, particularly as members of the blogging public, including Stu Piddy, read the transcript of MAMZ's speech to the Commonwealth Club and realized that if MAMZ's activities were as he said they were in the speech, then he must have trained and worked at the CIA for as much as two full years, between 2001 and 2003. These discoveries all began with my gnawing desire to understand the man who said he was "Crashing the Gates" of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media in order to remake them in his own image.

I don`t think any of us expected to discover that he was doing so only after having been trained by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). However, since the biography that MAMZ offered the world made no sense, it became necessary to research and explain the truth to the blogging and general public, by driving over eight hundred thousand Google hits that would be impossible to ignore. (Some of the hits at Google for "Kos" and "CIA" relate too MAMZ's own statements on other issues rather than his professional involvement with the CIA.)

Today, Markos Moulitsas, is the doctrinaire leftist publisher of the DailyKos â€œprogressiveâ€ anti-war blog, railing against the moderation of candidates like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Harold Ford. But in the 1980â€™s, Mr. Moulitsas was an unabashed Reagan Democrat, even working as a campaign aid to George H.W. Bush in the 1992 Presidential election. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0601.wallace-wells.htmlhttp://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/01/markos-was-republican-states...
Last year, in a piece Markos wrote for the Cato (libertarian) Institute, Markos acknowledged that the spent the 1980's as a Reagan Republican. http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the...http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/01/yes-progessive-markos-of-dai...
How did Markos achieve this stunning metamorphosis in just a few short years? Actually, nobody knows and Markos isnâ€™t telling. He has told interviewers, improbably, that he last voted for the Republicans in 1992, because he suddenly realized that they didnâ€™t support â€œstates rightsâ€ as strongly as he would have liked. (See articles above.)He said,
"We can fondly look back to a time [during the 1980's Reagan Administration] when Republicans spoke a good game on libertarian issues . . .[including] fealty to state rights . . ." The Case for the Libertarian Democrat (by Markos Moulitsas)
â€œStates rightsâ€ is the right-wing proposition that the federal government lacks the Constitutional authority to oblige the states to integrate schools, oblige restaurants to serve Black patrons and mandate equal rights for the disabled. States rights was the clarion call of southern segregationists against integration of schools and restaurants.
Considering that, for Markos, part of the Republicans "speaking a good game" on libertarian issues consisted, in Markosâ€™ words, of "fealty to states rights", clearly Markos is saying that he stopped supporting the Republicans because they stopped supporting statesâ€™ rights.
But, Markos' rejection of the Republicans today doesnâ€™t make sense, because Republicans' dedication to statesâ€™ rights has not deminished. One would have thought that George H.W. Bushâ€™s appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court would have satisfied Markos thirst for states rights jurisprudence on the US Supreme Court. Clarence Thomas is among the foremost proponents of states rights on the US Supreme Court. http://www.acsblog.org/equal-protection-and-due-process-in-clarence-thom...
E. J. Dion says,

What was once obvious is becoming painfully obvious again: The doctrine of states' rights, so often invoked as a principle, is almost always a pretext to deny the federal government authority to do things that conservatives dislike. These include expanding claims to individual rights, increasing protections for the environment and regulating business. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39141-2002Jun24?language=print...

For example,

In the ground-breaking 2000 case, United States v. Morrison, the Supreme Court was presented with a constitutional challenge to 42 U.S.C. 13981, the provision of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) that gives victims of gender-motivated violence a private right of action against their assailants. In a 5-4 decision, the Court struck down the law, holding that the Commerce Clause did not provide Congress with the authority to enact the civil remedy portion of VAWA, since the provision was found not to be a regulation of activity that "substantially affected" interstate commerce; and secondly, because the enforcement clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not provide Congress with authority to enact the provision . . .
With Thomas and four other justices declining to extend the enforcement clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to enact VAWA, "the unfortunate consequence of a series of political decisions harking back to Reconstruction" occurred, said Jack Balkin, a law professor at Yale. The 14th Amendment is arguably the natural home of civil rights legislation, as it guarantees equal citizenship, and it gives Congress power to enforce equality rights. Balkin elaborates, "We should recognize what the framers of the 14th Amendment intended: Congress has an independent power and obligation to promote and protect equal citizenship and civil rights." Therefore, if Congress believes that a law is necessary and proper to promote equal citizenship, it should have the power to pass it "without using the fiction that inequality affects interstate commerce." . . . The effects of Morrison have undermined civil rights generally and women's safety issues in particular. "The Rehnquist Court's ruling in U.S. v. Morrison is a setback for women's rights and a triumph for those that seek to roll back 30 years of federal civil rights law under the guise of states' rights," said Kathy Rodgers. "The Court has slammed shut the courthouse door, wished women good luck, and sent us back to the states for justice." http://www.acsblog.org/equal-protection-and-due-process-in-clarence-thom...

With Clarence Thomas appointed to the US Supreme Court to uphold statesâ€™ rights, it hardly seems logical that Markos would have abandoned the Republicans who had done so much to revive â€œstates rightsâ€ in the post Civil Rights era, particularly with the appoint of Clarence Thomas, the foremost advocate of statesâ€™ rights.
And therein lies the mystery of Markos. Why is he a Democrat at all, if he still supports statesâ€™ rights? http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the...

2 comments:

Anonymous
said...

The plain, unvarnished truth is, anyone who truly cared about the issues knew from the beginning that Markos Moulitsas was a fraud. Nor is he a republican. Back in the beginning, in some interview, I think it was the first time he was interviewed on tv, telling one of his many stories about himself, that his father had told him to watch the different political factions fight each other, not to pick a side, but to watch and see how one could profit from it. I believe that was a rare kernal of truth that he let slip out.

Moulitsas has always been looking for one scam or another to perpetuate, trying to put himself out there as a commodity, to see who bit. I don't believe he was trained by the CIA, and it's an established fact that he lied about his law degree. He allied himself with that criminal, Jerome Armstrong, the founder of mydd, a con artist who was caught by the SEC perpetuating frauds.

It wasn't the republicans who bit, now was it.. it was the corrupt dems, and I say that as someone who was a lifelong liberal democrat, and now am an independent. Moulitsas was caught committing fraud, using his blog to promote the fraud Howard Dean, not disclosing that he and Armstrong were in Dean's employ. Moulitsas uses censorship to quash honest debate on his site. He doesn't care about any issues, only profit. Of course, the same can be said for the democrats and the left. Progressives have shown themselves to be regressive, altogether, the dems and the left represent a plantation mindset, and embrace slavery and Jim Crow.

If you can't accept that truth, than you're as much a fraud as Moulitsas.

"the dems and the left represent a plantation mindset, and embrace slavery and Jim Crow. If you can't accept that truth, than you're as much a fraud as Moulitsa".

You are entitled to your opinion, but I would be truly interested to learn what leads you to that globalized conclusion, particularly with respect to the Democratic Party as a whole, but including sufficiently specific information so that readers can decide if they agree with you or not for themselves.

I was not aware that "it's an established fact that Moulitsas lied about his law degree."

Once again, can you provide us (Truth About Kos and its readers) with a source to back up your allegation. For example, what specific part of his law degree did he lie about?

The allegation about Moulitsas law school graduation being a fraud reminds me of similar facts I discovered about Al Gore. Although he says in his resumes that he attended law school and divinity school, he doesn't bother to mention that he failed to complete (flunked out?) of both graduate school programs.

To some people, that doesn't make much difference. To me, it's a question of his honesty, work ethic, and an insult to those who DID finish their graduate school education, even at great cost and with much work.

So, can you provide some additional detail about that your allegations with respect to MAMZ, including citation to some definitive soures. That would certainly be information that readers and the editor of The Truth About Kos would be interested in knowing and disseminating with certainty.

Since MAMZ has never come forward to deny the CIA connection, maybe it's part of the bogus background he has offered to the public and them media about many facts concerning himself and his family. But we would need to know that with certainty before we would print it as a fact.

"Sure, I could always talk against racism, fight ignorance and prejudice wherever I ran into it, yet I would always be looking in from another room and I could always close the door. My life, in my world, in my own detached selfishness. And as I left the ugly reality of racism behind, it struck me that what was such an easy and trivial exercise for me would be impossible for anyone whose skin color or religious persuassion (sic) made them the target of bigotry and discrimination. THEY would never be able to escape who THEY were." (Emphasis added.)

"When they 'crash the gates', will they take our cross?"

"A candidate's religion continues to play a key role in shaping vote choice. Nearly four-in-ten (39%) say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who is Christian. Moreover, 63% say they would be less inclined to support a presidential candidate who does not believe in God – the most negative trait tested."

New online book says Kos family member is president of the Association of Salvadoran Hotels and president of the Salvadoran National Tourism Board. Moulitsas lied when he said his family is not wealthy or influential.

DailyKos' Demographics

If a Link Here Doesn't Work . . .

If a link doesn't work, be patient. Look for an updated link in the articles below, use the search function in the top left, and/or look to this list of all but one of the articles written by Markos C. A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) when he was at Northern Illinois University (NIU), writing extreme right-wing letters to the editor. Interestingly, the one known missing article still is not in the archives although it was faxed to me by Northern Star staff and republished here.
That article was the first in a series of five articles about "racism", four of which were assigned tasks and described the "racism" and religious persecution problems on campus based on interviews.

"And as I left the ugly reality of racism behind, it struck me that what was such an easy and trivial exercise for me would be impossible for anyone whose skin color or religious persuassion (sic) made them the target of bigotry and discrimination. They would never be able to escape who they were." (Emphasis added.)

Atty. Francis L. Holland in the Media

"Francis L. Holland, one of the vocal black bloggers, sent e-mails to DNC officials asking that 15 black-operated blogs be added to the State Corps. "There is nothing 'Democratic' about an all-white Democratic National Convention floor blogging corps," he wrote in an e-mail. Holland is also asking for the inclusion of 15 Latino-operated blogs."

"Or, as Obama supporter Francis L. Holland puts it: "So, it shows tremendous courage, foresight and solidarity that Edwards has endorsed Obama after the media declared Hillary's campaign to be as good as dead, right? Oh, well! Better late than never!"

"Of the blogs covering the convention, black blogs will be 7.2% of the blogs present,” says Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition. According to Holland, many states with a strong black Democratic presence and population are either underrepresented or not represented at all, even though black bloggers from these states did apply. “The state of Tennessee, which often has over 25% blacks among its Democratic primary voters, will not have a single black blogger at the Democratic National Convention, for example. The District of Columbia, which is 60% black, will be left out. Louisiana, which is 32.4% black, will be left out. Illinois, the presidential nominee’s home state, which is 15% black, will be left out.”

In 2008, the Democratic "party came under fire from African American bloggers. Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition, complained to Black Enterprise magazine that black blogs only made up slightly more than 7% of the bloggers credentialed for the convention."

"We are tired of Hillary Clinton telling America that we are less than American simply because we refuse to vote for her," said Francis L. Holland, an African American blogger." Ironically, the Clintons embraced us, and even embraced Pastor Jeremiah Wright for support during their impeachment scandal." Holland was speaking of the congressional trial that followed former president Bill Clinton's liaison with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. "She has forfeited the black vote for the foreseeable future with her color aroused appeals."

“November’s voter turnout depends on August’s blogger outreach,” said Mr. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition., a member of a national and international black bloggers’ coalition called “The AfroSpear.” “Blogs address constituencies, and it simply is not possible for blogs that are all-white to effectively reach diverse Democratic constituencies.”

"Of the blogs covering the convention, black blogs will be 7.2% of the blogs present," says Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition. According to Holland, many states with a strong black Democratic presence and population are either underrepresented or not represented at all, even though black bloggers from these states did apply. “The state of Tennessee, which often has over 25% blacks among its Democratic primary voters, will not have a single black blogger at the Democratic National Convention, for example. The District of Columbia, which is 60% black, will be left out. Louisiana, which is 32.4% black, will be left out. Illinois, the presidential nominee's home state, which is 15% black, will be left out."

"Francis Holland is a blogger from Afrospear, a national group of bloggers that advocates for African-Americans. When he looked at the list of State Bloggers, he saw no black blogs among them. Holland explains that the process the Democratic Convention planners used to choose the State Blogger Corps was bound to lead to this result. And he argues that the Democratic Party can scarcely afford to alienate black voters in this election year." (The original link no longer works, which is becoming a growing documentation problem on the Internet.)

"Electing Edwards to challenge the status quo is like supporting a queen to challenge the monarchy or integrating an all-white club by adding more all-white club members. It is possible that electing yet another white man to the Presidency will end the poverty of the historically disenfranchised, with John Edwards serving as a "pass through" for those who have historically been disincluded legally and by custom. But this is a very convoluted way of achieving what could be achieved much more directly by electing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. ..."

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Although I am a trained attorney, I am retired and am not an active member of any state Bar. Therefore, I advocate in all matters on my own behalf and not as the legal representative of any person, group or organization.